Thoughts

“If you have a true friend, you have more than your share.” ~Thomas Fuller

Team work

Team work, or collaboration, is more than a means to a goal; often it is the goal and the base from which infrastructure of success extends. At the core of team work is respect for the skills of the individual members and a keen understanding what they can offer each other, how the pieces can fit together to form a whole.

On numerous occasions, I have been fortunate enough to be included as part of a team environment, sharing in the collaborative processes of group creation, organization, and implementation.

Directed numerous groups of cast and crew members in the staging of theatrical productions

Innovated the working structure for a team of artists and technologists from multiple disciplines; assisting different teams in working together to create content, innovate technology, and shape the themic elements. I did this while also participating and contributing to the different elements

Worked as a cast and/or crew member for numerous theatrical productions

As a cinematographer, I worked with a team of filmmakers for long hours over several months to produce an independent film

As a part of what might be the ultimate in team building exercises, I participated in a cross-cultural performance with a group of then-soviet children in a pre-perestroika USSR